Word: nevelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transcended its provincialism at last. The task of describing the crucial period 1930-50, which saw the emergence of a dazzling array of technical options-movement in sculpture, open-welded construction, the use of found objects-and the rise not only of Smith and Calder but also of Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Joseph Cornell and Barnett Newman, has been elegantly done by Rosalind Krauss...
...Louise Nevelson, D.F.A., sculptor...
...flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass and goat cheese. Among the guests: Playwright Lillian Hellman, Couturiere Pauline Trigere, Journalist Sally Quinn, Author Marya Mannes, New York Times Op-Ed Page Editor Charlotte Curtis, Sculptor Louise Nevelson, Former New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, and Boston-based Gastronome Julia Child. Sipping her Veuve Clicquot '66 at the end of the ten course, eight wine dinner, Julia gave her verdict: "The whole thing was a great deal of fun." Chef Bocuse smilingly surveyed his table...
...calls up the image of Manhattan with two vertical wave patterns, making one think of the Hudson and East Rivers, while the varied vertical projections in between evoke the silhouetted figures of the Manhattan scape." So said brilliant, Kiev-born Louise Nevelson, 73, doyenne of American sculptors, as she supervised the assembling of her splendid gift to the city in which she has lived for 53 years: Night Presence IV, a 22½-ft.-high, 4½-ton rusty steel abstraction...
Wearing a long, chinchilla-trimmed orange paisley coat, velvet jockey cap and sturdy black lace-ups, Nevelson was a little doubtful about the location of her work among the luxury apartment houses of upper Park Avenue. Some passers-by agreed with her, though not for the same reason. "It's hideous!" exclaimed a matron only to be overruled by a threeyear-old completely attuned to Nevelson's wave length. "It isn't the Statue of Liberty," he cried. "What's it called...